{"id":673,"date":"2017-05-04T23:45:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T23:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/?p=673"},"modified":"2017-05-04T23:45:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T23:45:29","slug":"three-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"Three Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Thomas Manton (1620-77),\u00a0Commentary on James 3:2<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

“A godly person observed that Christians are usually to blame for three things:<\/p>\n

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  1. They seek in themselves what they can only find in Christ;<\/li>\n
  2. They seek in the law what will only be found in the gospel;<\/li>\n
  3. They seek on earth what will only be enjoyed in heaven.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    (h\/t R. Scott Clark<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    From Thomas Manton (1620-77),\u00a0Commentary on James 3:2: “A godly person observed that Christians are usually to blame for three things: They seek in themselves what they can only find in Christ; They seek in the law what will only be found in the gospel; They seek on earth what will only be enjoyed in heaven.” … Continue reading Three Things<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.practicalgrace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}